One legend related of Sargon in Assyrian times says that

The legend associated with Chiron says that he was accidentally poisoned with an arrow shot by Hercules, and was subsequently placed in the heavens.

The legend says that the pirates requested food and cattle from the inhabitants of the island.

Richard Steigmann-Gall says that the stab-in-the-back legend traces back to a sermon preached on February 3, 1918, by Protestant Court Chaplain Bruno Doehring, six months before the war had even ended.

The bar where legend says Poe was last seen drinking before his death still stands in Fells Point in Baltimore, Maryland.

Some medieval chronicles and literary works derive the name of the city of Buda from him. There is an ancient legend, amongst the Székely people that says: " After the death of Attila, in the bloody Battle of Krimhilda, 3000 Hun warriors managed to escape, to settle in a place called " Csigle mezo " ( today Transylvania ) and they changed their name from Huns to Szekler ( Szekely ).

There is an old Russian legend that says the Samoyeds, an ancient Siberian tribe, traveled to an underground cavern city to live inside the earth.

The legend at the bottom says " Jean-Jacques, aime ton pays " (" love your country "), and shows Rousseau's father gesturing towards the window.

A variant of the legend says that Miaoshan allowed herself to die at the hand of the executioner.

Campus legend says the brawl was sparked by the alleged theft of the body of Millsaps founder Major Millsaps by Mississippi College students.

Musashi killed his opponent with a bokken that legend says he had carved from an oar used on the boat that carried him to the island.

Lese legend says the okapi decorates itself with these stripes, adding to the okapi's great camouflage.

The legend on the reverse says: Judaea Capta coinage | IVDEA CAPTA, " Iudaea ( Roman province ) | Judaea conquered ".

The Encyclopædia Britannica says this about the legend:

There is a similar great legend in Prague which says that when the Motherland is in danger or in its darkest times and close to ruin, the equestrian statue of King Wenceslaus in Wenceslaus Square will come to life, raise the army sleeping in Blaník, and upon crossing the Charles Bridge his horse will stumble and trip over a stone, revealing the legendary sword of Bruncvík.

Chief among these is a series of fortification walls on the north slope of Palatine Hill that can be dated to the middle of the 8th century BC, when legend says that Romulus plowed a furrow ( sulcus ) around the Palatine Hill in order to mark the boundary of his new city.

Welsh legend provides a mythic story that says he did exactly that.

The legend says that his sister was asked for, and a marriage alliance sought with the local Berber leader.

An old Icelandic legend says that two night-prowling giants, a man and a woman, were traversing the fjord near Drangey Island with their cow when they were surprised by the bright rays of daybreak.

An ancient legend says that Odysseus feigned madness by yoking a horse and an ox to his plow and sowing salt.

The legend also says that as a child, Jesus had visited Glastonbury along with Joseph.

People believed that this was " the famous egg that legend says Leda brought forth ".

Bob Hoffman sent over tons of equipment for this contest too – and didn ’ t take it back, legend says it ’ s all still being used in the West Midlands.

* When Costello is next to Dracula's coffin at the beginning of the film, the information card says " Frankenstein's monster " until the camera moves and it changes to " Dracula's legend.

Shakespeare based Hamlet on the legend of Amleth, preserved by 13th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum as subsequently retold by 16th-century scholar François de Belleforest.

This legend is attributed to the writings of Mme Marcelle Adam ( novelist and president of the Federation Feline Française and owner of Maldapour Birman Cattery ) and first published by Dr. François Méry in the French Review Minerva.

Sir Elyan the White or Helyan le Blanc is the son of Sir Bors and is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

A well-known legend attached to the site concerns a wealthy hunter, Childe, who became lost in a snow storm and supposedly died there despite disembowelling his horse and climbing into its body for protection.

Groucho was the subject of an urban legend about a supposed response to a contestant who had nine children which supposedly brought down the house.

The valuation of the Koh-i-Noor is given in the legend that one of Nader Shah's consorts supposedly said, " If a strong man should take five stones, and throw one north, one south, one east, and one west, and the last straight up into the air, and the space between filled with gold and gems, that would equal the value of the Koh-i-noor.

277 mentions the legend that it was Carmenta, the Cimmerian Sibyl, who altered fifteen letters of the Greek alphabet to become the Latin alphabet, which her son Evander introduced into Latium, supposedly 60 years before the Trojan War, but there is no historically sound basis to this tale ).

* King Atlas, a mythical King of Mauretania, was according to legend a wise philosopher, mathematician and astronomer who supposedly made the first celestial globe.

One Catalonian legend holds it was named for Tarraho, eldest son of Tubal in c. 2407 BC ; another ( derived from Strabo and Megasthenes ) attributes the name to ' Tearcon the Ethiopian ', a 7th century BC pharaoh who supposedly campaigned in Spain.

According to legend preserved in the Book of Arda Viraf, a 3rd or 4th century work, a written version of the religious texts had existed in the palace library of the Achaemenid kings ( 559 – 330 BC ), but which was then supposedly ( Arda Viraf 1. 4-7 and Denkard 3. 420 ) lost in a fire caused by the troops of Alexander.

However, little links this figure, supposedly active in the late 1st century, to the Prester John legend beyond the name.

She was supposedly buried near Lincoln Park, where a bronze marker there retells the legend.

Aurora is best known for a purported UFO crash in April 1897, and the ongoing legend that the UFO's pilot is supposedly buried in the local cemetery.

There also exists a legend about a treasure, stolen from a nearby military fortification's salary, supposedly buried on a bluff somewhere in this area.

* Old wives ' tale, a wisdom much like an urban legend, supposedly passed down by old wives to a younger generation

One explanation is the legend of the Twelve Knights of Glamorgan, which dates from the 16th century, in which the Welsh Prince Iestyn ap Gwrgan ( Jestin ), prince or Lord of Glamorgan, supposedly called in the assistance of Robert Fitzhamon.

John, or ' Johnny ', as he was called before The War, is a lover of literature, and is influenced by three separate cultural icons: the concept of becoming a Hero, in the sense of the legendary figures of ancient Greece ; Hawthorne's The Great Stone Face, in which legend predicts that a great man will appear, whose face is identical to the natural stone face which, in the Hawthorne story, is a local landmark ; and finally, the quest to find the legendary Raintree, which was supposedly planted somewhere in Raintree County by John Chapman, or Johnny Appleseed.

This belief may be related to the fact that these geese were never seen in summer, when they were supposedly developing underwater ( they were actually breeding in remote Arctic regions ) in the form of barnacles — which came to have the name " barnacle " because of this legend.

This translation was promoted by way of a legend ( primarily recorded as the Letter of Aristeas ) that seventy ( or in some sources, seventy-two ) separate translators all produced identical texts ; supposedly proving its accuracy.

In Qu's exile, so goes the legend, he supposedly produced some of the greatest early poetry in Chinese literature expressing his fervent love for his state and his deepest concern for its future.

The original legend tells that someone who had supposedly been bitten by the tarantula ( or the Mediterranean black widow ) spider had to dance to an upbeat tempo to sweat the poison out.

One Mantis legend places the creation of the style in the Song Dynasty when Wang Lang was supposedly one of 18 masters gathered by the Abbot Fu Ju ( 福居 ), a legendary persona of the historical Abbot Fu Yu ( 福裕 ) ( 1203 – 1275 ), to improve Shaolin martial arts.

One legend attributes the creation of Mantis fist to the Song Dynasty when Abbot Fu Ju ( 福居 ), a legendary persona of the historical Abbot Fu Yu ( 福裕 ) ( 1203 – 1275 ), supposedly invited Wang Lang ( 王朗 ) and seventeen other masters to come and improve the martial arts of Shaolin.

According to legend, Christian Rosenkreuz was a doctor who discovered and learned esoteric wisdom on a pilgrimage to the Middle East among Turkish, Arab, and Persian sages, possibly Sufi or Zoroastrian masters, supposedly in the early 15th century ( see section below on Symbolism ); returned and founded the " Fraternity of the Rose Cross " with himself ( Frater C. R. C.

According to legend he killed 57 trolls there, and a loaf of Battle Bread that he supposedly wielded has become a cultural icon and is in the Dwarf Bread Museum in Ankh-Morpork.

Ghost-hunters like to quote the legend of a Benedictine monastery supposedly built in this area in about 1362 according to which, a monk from the monastery carried on a relationship with a nun from a nearby convent.